Thematic Bible: Examples of love for Christ


Thematic Bible




But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us, even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)



The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD raises those that are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous:




but because the LORD loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand and ransomed you out of the house of slavery from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.





Only that with diligence ye keep yourselves doing the commandment and the law, which Moses, the slave of the LORD, charged you: to love the LORD your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.



And now, Israel, what does the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Therefore, thou shalt love the LORD thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his rights and his commandments, always.



As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, O God.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? And apart from thee there is nothing upon the earth that I desire.


My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.





But Mary stood outside near the sepulchre weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre


Then Thomas said, who is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us go also, that we may die with him.


He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He said unto him, Yes, Lord thou knowest that I love thee. He said unto him, Feed my sheep.




Therefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.


Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.